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Bernie Fineman and Mario Pacione restore shameful rust buckets to their former ‘classic car’ glory in this new six-part series. In a TV first, viewers will also get the opportunity to win the restored classic car at the end of each episode by entering weekly competitions!
The fiery duo will restore a Jaguar E-Type, a Mini Cooper, a Cadillac, a Ford Mustang, a Porsche 911 and an MGB Roadster. Working to a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, they scour scrapyards, wasteland and backyards to find bargain wrecks with great potential. Having found the cars, they then need to source the rare, original parts and piece together the vital organs of these sleeping beasts to re-create their classic beauty.
But will the job be good enough to impress an expert valuer and put a glittering price tag on the gleaming bonnet? Sparks and spanners fly as Bernie and Mario meet designers, engineers, owners and lovers of these magnificent cars and discuss why these models turned dreams into reality, how they introduced new technology and why they were such a success.
After hard work, some late-nights and last-minute sorties for spare parts, the day arrives for the official presentation and viewers can finally see why these cars became such classics.

Some very nice cars included - "this is what a classic 911/E-type/Mustang/whatever looks like" - but the ones they restore are dogs and even when they've finished are full of mistakes and mixed elements from different years - the 911 is a total mongrel which was I think a true 3.2 Carrera despite pre-73 rear bodywork. In the Mustang convertible ep they put Boss stripes on it just because they found some. So don't take them too seriously. At the end of each ep they say "win this 1969 Mustang Convertible with a V8 302 motor" or whatever that ep car was - that statement is probably the most accurate as it has to be legally valid, so is worth noting.

And the C5 blurb quoted above says an MGB Roadster, but it was an MGB GT. Perhaps imcdb can offer consultancy services to television folk to help them with the basic facts ....

Every episode had the same sequence of restoration events:
1] one of them goes and looks at a basketcase car - offer the seller a stupidly small amount way below the asking price - fail to agree - no sale.
2] go and look at a second one - haggle - eventually buy it - take it home on a trailer
3] the other one then sees it in the workshop and has a token tantrum that it was far too expensive - they argue
4] one of them goes to a mate who runs a scrappy - buys a load of random rubbish parts for pocket money
5] each car has a stupidly faked workshop disaster due to incompetence (these teams are supposed to be professional so it's just implausible). Bald guy with specs then has a huge tantrum - rants and raves - proclaims total disaster, and with the valuer coming next day it can't be done. Behaves like a total twot - in real life everyone would just walk out and leave with his broken toys.
6] Miraculously kiss and make up - everything gets sorted in time. Valuer makes nice noises and gives them a figure with a nice profit.
7] Car then gets offered as competition prize - as each one has been so clumsily restored, with lots of inaccurate bling - and entries are on premium rate phone numbers, only the gullible would fall for it.

Very formulaic and lazy format, cynical television. But nice cars involved - best watched with the sound off.